PS3 flashing red light

[RizzoTheRat]

My PS3 has given up the ghost with 3 beeps and a flashing red light. A bit of googling suggested overheating so I've made sure the vents are all clean, popped the drive out to clean off any dust in the bay and let it cool down, but it's still doing it. Anyone come across any other suggestions?

[RizzoTheRat]

Its the old 40GB fat one. Bought pre-owned from Game and still wihtin the warrenty so I should be able to get it replaced if terminal, problem is there's still a disk in the drive that I'd like to be able to get out.

ETA: Good call on the fan test, it ejected the disk when it started it so all I'll loose now is the save games

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Friday 17th September 13:21

[RizzoTheRat]

Top marks for Game, called the store I got it from, they didn't have any but checked with another store that did and swapped it for me.